Last Saturday, as a Mother's Day gift for me, John took the day off from
working in the garage so that we could all go down to the "Discover
Dinosaurs" exhibit in Denver. Michael and Brittney had invited us as they are more clued in to what fun things are going on in Denver. It was (for us) way expensive at $50 for
tickets for the whole family and then you tack on $25 for gas and that
eats up our entertainment/restaurant budget for the entire month. But
since we've never done anything like this ever, I think it was well
worth it for the memories we created for Jeffrey. It was also nice to hang out with family and get the cousins together.
Jeffrey was very excited.
He had just finished a "dinosaur" unit at school. He classified pretty
much all the dinosaurs as either a "T-rex" or a "Velociraptor" (as
these are the only two names he knows, evidently).
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| They gave Jeffrey
a paper with a bunch of dinosaurs' pictures on it, and he kept trying
to match them up. I'm pretty sure he got them wrong each time, but it
was still really cute. |
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| Charlotte was remarkably good. |
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| Several of the dinosaurs were "animatronic" and the kids could press buttons to make specific parts of them move. |
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| I didn't notice that Arabelle had a particular interest in the dinosaurs, but she could tell we were somewhere "cool" and she definitely enjoyed herself. |
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| Excavating dinosaur bones. There's Kaitlin in the blue shirt. |
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| A Young Paleontologist. |
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| This was advertised as an "excellent photo opportunity", but I'm not sure if I agree with that. |
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| Another picture to take advantage of the "excellent photo op". |
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| Arabelle really liked this blue dinosaur. |
There were also some big blow up slides (like big blow up slides
anywhere, but with large blow up dinosaurs attached) as well as a few
small dinosaur rides that cost additional money. We weren't planning to
do these, but it turned out that Jeffrey was too short to do them
anyway. This made me think of the issue that Jeffrey will probably be
20 years old before he can ride any of the big kid rides at amusement
parks, etc. Let's just hope he gets there eventually.
It's fun to realize that you've moved on to a new stage of kids' stuff--yes it costs more $$ but sometimes it's worth it. I wish I could have seen Jeffrey's face as he looked at the dinosaurs!
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ReplyDeleteThat looks like a very cool place and wish (like Mom) that I could have seen them enjoying it! And, as always, I love their outfits! Jeffrey's hat is just what a young paleontologist would wear.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I have some very fond memories of things like that. For example, I remember a ride (I think it was at Lagoon) that had animatronic dinosaurs. I thought it was very cool, but also kind of scary. I went on it again years later and realized it was mostly just kind of goofy. So maybe Jeffrey is at that age where he'll remember the dinosaur exhibit as the coolest thing ever.
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